stolid
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Stolid men in helmets and rubber boots, they listened in silence as an intelligence officer briefed them on a new route in to their positions.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2024
Stolid of brushwork, colours fading, it was a picture pressed so far back into art history as to be practically a period piece.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2012
Stolid, square, unexciting but commonsensical, he is trying to appeal to the old-fashioned instincts of the average voter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stolid, squat Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, agreed; but he did not and would not agree to the people M. Franklin-Bouillon wished to take along with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stolid and unimpressible though they might be, there was something in the scene which even they felt and were silent.
From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George
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